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 Catalogue of Brand AlateriaL

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Parochial (Churchwardens in church, 1552). - ,, (" Caymes Pageant," i6th cent.)

]\Iorris-dancins; -

Dancing

Maypoles

Cudgel-play

Ball and other games as on

Shrove Tuesday Runaway-blow at fairs ' ' Cock-squailing ' ' (throwing

at cocks) - - - -

Kiss-in-the-ring or Drop handkerchief (called gages in N. Devon) -

Thread-the-Needle played at Greenwich Fair

LOCALITY.

Essex (Heybridge).

Reading. 1

S. Salop (Broseley, 1656). Glos. (Blakeney). Chester (1790). Oxon., Herefordshire. Berks. (Reading, Abing- don). Northants. (Brackley,

1766). Lanes. (Brindle). Glos. (Avening, Cherring-

ton). Salop (AshfordCarbonel). Yorks. (Hornsea). Lanes. (Downham). Oxon. (Ducklington,

Woodstock,Chalgrove) . Hants. (Hurstbourne

Tarrant, St. Mary

Bourne). Glos. (Cooper's Hill

Common, nr. Birdlip ;

Pagan Hill, nr. Stroud). Salop (Ludlow). Berks (general). Hants. (Stubbington till

1 8th cent.).

Alnwick. Lanes.

Dorset.

Devon (specially) and elsewhere.

Greenwich.

iThe King Play (King Game or Kyng Ale) is also mentioned in i6th cent, parochial accounts, but may have been only a Church Ale with King and Queen of A^ay. The " tree of the Kyng play late stondyng in the marcatt place " was sold in 1516-17 for i2d.